Tuesday, December 17, 2019

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  • Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta are back as Sandy Olsson and Danny Zuko from Grease. Not in a new movie, but in a special appearance at a public event. The recent “Meet ‘n Grease”...

  • Secret Lovers at Auschwitz Reunited 72 Years Later – He had 1 Question for Her

    12 hours ago
  • It’s hard to imagine love and lovers blooming in the Nazi camp of Auschwitz, but as the poets declare, love will not be denied, no matter how harrowing the circumstances. It was a period...

  • Actual head cone found on buried Egyptian woman solves ancient Mystery

    a day ago
    • Long ago, ancient Egyptian women wore what archaeologists describe as a head cone. At first it was speculated that these were simply fictional items depicted through art on Egyptian...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!


  • The fiscal arithmetic of hyperinflation

    2 hours ago

  • 24% percent of girls had science as their best subject, 25% of girls’ strength was math, and 51% excelled in reading. For boys, the percentages were 38 for science, 42 for math, and 20 for reading

    3 hours ago

    •   TARPLEY.net

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, December 16, 2019 Crisis on Wall Street: Federal Reserve Set to Inject Record $500 Billion...

  • House Judiciary Approves Two Articles of Impeachment Against Trump; He Faces Vote of Whole House in Coming Week; Historic Repudiation Is Fourth in American History; GOP Relies on Gaslighting; Moscow Mitch Admits He Is Lackey of White House in Senate Trial, Turning Fairness Argument on Its Head; Prof. Eddie Glaude of Princeton Calls It “Death Rattle of Republican Party”

    3 days ago
  • A Mirror for GOP: Once-Great Federalist Party Became Extinct After Flirting with Secessionism and Wartime Treason at Hartford Convention of 1814-1815; Monroe Presidency Then...

  • House Judiciary Committee Moves Towards Approval of Two Impeachment Articles, Rejects GOP’s Killer Amendments; Eloquent Statements from Democratic Members; Jayapal: Trump Is the Smoking Gun, and It’s Being Reloaded – (And Pointed at You!); Nadler: “Do You Want a Dictator?”

    5 days ago
    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, December 12, 2019 British Tragedy: Exit Polls Show Big Gains for Pro-Brexit Tories at Expense...

      Sustainable Pulse

  • The primary mechanism of how glyphosate herbicides kill plants is by inhibiting an enzyme called EPSPS, which is part of a biochemical pathway known as the shikimate pathway. The...

  • French Health Agency ANSES Announces Withdrawal of 36 Glyphosate Products

    6 days ago
  • Following the five-year re-approval of the active substance glyphosate by the European Union in 2017, the French health and safety agency ANSES is reviewing the market authorisations...

  • European Governments Ban Brain-Harming Pesticides Chlorpyrifos and Chlorpyrifos-methyl

    8 days ago
    • Representatives from the European Member States in the EU Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SCOPAFF) voted Friday to ban the neurotoxic pesticides chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl...

      sunshine hours

  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 349 – 2019

    a day ago
  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 348 – 2019

    2 days ago
    • South / North

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • US President Donald Trump’s administration wants to build a rules-based and democracy-led order in the Indo-Pacific, but seems to have no idea how. If it doesn’t find the answer...

  • Stuck in a haze: New Delhi’s smog is the cost of environmental neglect

    a month ago
  • Brahma Chellaney, The Globe and Mail Just as German Chancellor Angela Merkel reached New Delhi last week on a state visit, noxious smog blanketed the Indian capital, forcing a shutdown...

  • China is weaponizing water and worsening droughts in Asia

    a month ago
    • Its dams are provoking regional tensions, so Beijing needs to reconsider its policy. Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review Asia, the world’s driest continent in per capita...

      Ramani's blog

    • Nelspruit Nature Reserve. An ancient Hindu worship site which dates back 1,800 years, and is still in use today.

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • Terrsa Hanafin of the Boston Globe’s Fast Forward writes about Rudy Guiliani:   My word, Rudy Giuliani barely stepped foot back in the US before that foot was firmly planted in his...

  • Sackler Family Transferred $10 Billion Out of Purdue as Opioid Crisis Worsened

    5 hours ago
  • The New York Times reports that the Sackler family, one of the nation’s wealthiest families, busily transferred assets to themselves as the opioid crisis worsened The Sacklers...

  • Jan Resseger: Ohio’s Expansion of Vouchers for Religious Schools Will Burden School Districts Across the State

    6 hours ago
    • Jan Resseger describes here the ideology and shamelessness behind the expansion of vouchers for religious schools in Ohio. She shows how the plan was cooked up by legislators who...

      Pasco Phronesis

  • It was a light week for science and technology bookings on late night, much like this year has been.  You could have caught a repeat on The Late Late Show of Arnold Schwarzenegger promoting...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of November 25

    16 days ago
  • Most, but not all, late night programs were in repeats this past week due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States.  Of those repeats, the November 29 edition of The Late Show...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of November 18

    20 days ago
    • Once again, we can count on Silicon Valley (the show) to show up in these posts.  Lead actor Thomas Middleditch appeared on Conan November 19.  This was the key guest of a light week...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood     While Matt McGrath deludes himself in Madrid, the IEA reveal the stark reality:   Coal consumption is set to rise in the coming years as growing demand for electricity...

  • Burning Forests Is Not A Very Good Idea, Decides Guardian (Six Years Too Late)

    11 hours ago
  • By Paul Homewood     Crikey Jilly, you’re a bit late at the party, aren’t you? I was telling everybody about this six years ago!   Plans to shift Europe’s coal plants to burning...

  • What Harrabin’s Analysis Does Not Tell You

    a day ago
    • By Paul Homewood   I mentioned Matt McGrath’s contribution to factual broadcasting earlier:   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-50799905   It contained...

      NoTricksZone

  • Few places virtue signal green as much as Germany. So not surprisingly a number of cities led by socialist/green governments have attempted to implement electric public transportation...

  • Another New Study Finds The Canadian Arctic Was About 1-2°C Warmer During Medieval Times

    a day ago
  • Four reconstructions from the central and western High Arctic reveal July temperatures were about 1-2°C warmer than today during most of the 1st millennium and Medieval period...

  • Ocean Cycles At Work: Data From Japan Meteorological Agency Show Northern Coastal Europe November COOLING!

    2 days ago
    • By Kirye and P. Gosselin Of course all we hear from the media nowadays is that weather extremes have been getting worse (over the past decades) and the planet is warming rapidly. But...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • VAMboozled!: Teachers “Grow” Their Students’ Heights as Much as Their Achievement The title of this post captures the key findings of a study that has come across my desk now...

  • Curmudgucation: Can Rich Content Improve Education?

    a day ago
  • Curmudgucation: Can Rich Content Improve Education? Modern high-stakes testing really kicked into gear with No Child Left Behind, and then got another huge boost with the advent...

  • Answer Sheet: Report: Federal Government Wasted Millions of Dollars on Charter Schools that Never Opened

    4 days ago
    • Answer Sheet: Report: Federal Government Wasted Millions of Dollars on Charter Schools that Never Opened More than 35 percent of charter schools funded by the federal Charter School...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // Fox News Donald Trump certainly is mercurial at times. He can be uncouth. But then again, no president in modern memory has been on the receiving end of such...

  • Victor Davis Hanson: Spygate, Impeachment & the Assault on Trump For Undoing the Progressive Agenda

    4 days ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // The Epoch Times

  • Democrats’ Cannibalistic Ideology

    4 days ago
    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Once liberalism and progressivism give way to Jacobinism — and they often do, as we have seen in revolutionary France, China, and Russia —...

    The Moderate Voice

  • The post Putin and the GOP (Cartoon) appeared first on The Moderate Voice.

  • Israel is still in the Twilight zone

    6 hours ago
  • I think many of you are aware that Israel’s second national this year has ended in a total stalemate. While Likud and the Blue and White party split the national vote, neither party...

  • Murdering the Rule of Law

    a day ago
    • If the intent of the GOPs is to make a mockery of the Rule of Law, they have succeeded admirably.... The post Murdering the Rule of Law appeared first on The Moderate Voice...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • Brussels has been striving to secure the deal for six years, as it seeks to prove it has the negotiating muscle to broker meaningful agreements with Beijing that can defend European...

  • Tuesday assorted links

    6 hours ago
  • 1. An occupational satisfaction index? 2. “We find that local exposure to fatal school shootings increases youth antidepressant use by 21.4 percent in the following two years.”...

  • The gender gap in confidence, revisited — gender differences in research reporting

    14 hours ago
    • His team analyzed more than 100,000 medical studies and 6.2 million life sciences article that were published over a 15-year period, finding that women-authored studies were 12...

      Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Today in the Washington Post,  Eric Holder criticized Bill Barr for his aggressive, partisan support of Trump. Holder was Obama’s...

  • Happy Thanksgiving: A Meditation on Religious Liberty

    19 days ago
  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Happy Thanksgiving! Today is a day when we pause and give thanks to whatever deity we worship (or not) for the blessings we enjoy: our freedom...

  • Paul Waldman Remembers When Republicans Thought Trump Was a Charlatan and a Kook

    21 days ago
    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Paul Waldman of the Washington Post went down memory lane with prominent Republicans who called out Trump as a phony before he was elected...

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  • Illegal aliens in New York are now waiting in long lines for driver’s licenses without any fear of deportation.

  • Guatemalan Illegal Who Killed Four Kids Collared Again

    4 hours ago
  • Three years ago, immigration authorities deported a border-jumping Guatemalan woman who killed four children and injured more than a dozen. Last month, cops collared her again...

  • Chinese Embassy Officials Expelled After Entering Virginia Military Base

    5 hours ago
    • After the United States expelled two Chinese Embassy officials who drove onto a U.S. Navy base in Virginia Beach, the Chinese asked the United States to “correct its mistake.”...

      MintPress News

  • Mexico is in a period of profound change and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his Morena Party are charting a dramatically new path for the country.  The post Mexico’s...

  • A People’s Guide to Revolution: How Leaderless Revolts Lose the Battle Before it Even Begins

    8 hours ago
  • Reflections on how mass media and leaderless movements have affected the success of popular protests from Quebec in 2012 to Lebanon today. The post A People’s Guide to Revolution...

  • Bolivia’s New US-Backed Interim Gov’t Wastes No Time Privatizing Economy

    a day ago
    • From privatizing natural resources to partnering with other right-wing regimes, Bolivia's new interim government has wasted no time in reversing years of hard-fought gains. The...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • The working class has changed. Labour needs to understand that(tags:Labour politics UK class viaMarrog )Pro-Indian fake websites targeted decision makers in Europe(tags:india...

  • The death of hope is a balm

    14 hours ago
  • After three years of increasing stress watching Brexit approach, be deflected, go up against numerous crunch votes, and not quite make it through, the knowledge that it's happening...

  • Interesting Links for 16-12-2019

    a day ago
    • Without Section 30, the law won't help Scottish independence(tags:Scotland independence law UK )Cache of Crypto-Jewish Recipes Dating to Inquisition Found in Miami Kitchen(tags:USA...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today

  • A study finds that those who regularly eat hot chilis have a lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease compared with those who eat chilis rarely...

  • Medical News Today: E-cigarettes: How high is the risk of chronic lung disease?

    15 hours ago
  • A large new study confirms the link between the use of electronic cigarettes and a significantly increased risk of chronic lung disease.

  • Medical News Today: Weight gain during period: What to know

    19 hours ago
    • Some people may experience perceived or actual weight gain around the time of their period. Read on to find out why and how to prevent weight gain during a period...

      InvestmentWatch

  • by Jason Burack of Wall St For Main St Refinance lending has nearly doubled over the past three quarters, according to Black Knight. Cash-out refinances were up 24% since the...

  • TRUMP WRITES letter TO PELOSI to “REGISTER HIS PROTEST OF IMPEACHMENT”!

    22 minutes ago
  • Trump sends letter to Pelosi registering his protest of impeachment pic.twitter.com/IEniQTGkkZ — Jordyn Phelps (@JordynPhelps) December 17, 2019 Jordyn Phelps @JordynPhelps...

  • $1 Trillion Fed Money Flood as Global Economic Fallout Since 2018! Here’s Proof.

    23 minutes ago
    • The Fed will be printing $1 trillion in a very short period of time. This is absolutely historic and yet nobody is complaining. They’re actually cheering the monetary easing to...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • I’m binge watching Star Trek, the original series, and here are my observations, about halfway through season two.I’m surprised at how well it holds up as entertainment – the...

  • Fraud

    2 days ago
  • A little over a month ago, Donald Trump was found guilty of defrauding a charity. A children’s cancer fund. Now, it was the Donald Trump Foundation, and they did donate some money...

  • Not All

    2 days ago
    • One thing that kind of ticks me off is when people say “All politicians are liars” or “all politicians are crooks” as a way of ending a political conversation, without saying...

      Fragments from Floyd

  • I’m beating the rush for New Year’s Resolutions, and thought I’d go ahead and start failing to keep mine ahead of schedule. I’ve realized that I have allowed myself to get too...

  • Tools for Thought

    8 days ago
  • It’s a niche interest, maybe; geeky, if you will. But I continue to explore ways that the computer keyboard and monitor that most of us have in our homes these days can do a better job...

  • A Future of Keystrokes, Minutes and Synapses

    14 days ago
    • These are the things that I tell myself every morning are in limited and consistently depleted supply. Every morning, this reality should drive me to the top of my task and projects...

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